Before we start, you've been following us as subscribers on our mailing list, as people who have been following this ministry and I want to show you what God has showed me that he wants us to do into the future concerning the Church of God and the body of Christ and this ministry that he has put together at the highest level. Now some 15 years ago when we first arrived in Mexico, as I was in prayer the one day, I saw a vision. It was a vision that I shared way back there and I called it the vision of the sleeping giant.

It was a very similar vision to what a man of God named Tommy Hicks, many years ago, had seen during some of the early charismatic revivals and if you've ever read Tommy's vision of the sleeping giant, you'll see that I had the similar kind of vision. I saw this giant lying on the ground and I didn't see it quite the same way that Tommy did. He saw it all covered with dirt.

I saw kind of like that story, Gulliver's Travels, where this giant was lying on the ground. Gulliver went to the land where the little people called the Lilliputians and they'd tied him to the ground, all these little men, and he was lying there helpless and so I saw the sleeping giant and the Lord said to me, this is the state of my church. It's been laid out and immobilized that it cannot move.

And all these little creatures running around, all the powers of darkness that had crippled the body of Christ, which should have been standing tall as the giant was lying on the ground, trapped and tied down. And I saw in the dream as the sleeping giant began to lift and rise and I saw how he snapped the cords that were holding his right hand and his left hand and how he stood up and continued to snap the cords and eventually stood tall and totally free of all these things that had held him back. And I saw that the body of Christ needed to rise up and break free and I knew the Lord was telling me that part of my mandate and my vision was to help the body of Christ do this.

Now sometime later as I was in prayer and I often see things in the spirit, I often see demonic powers, I see demonic princes, I see demons at all kinds of levels, I see angels, I see many things in the spirit when I pray. And on this day I saw this big, looked like a soldier or a warrior standing before me and my first impression was that this was a prince of darkness and I thought perhaps in intercession I was to come against this prince of darkness and overcome him because he was standing in the way of how God was leading us. But then the spirit of God said to me, no, this is not a prince of darkness.

This is the mighty warrior. This is my church. This is my body the way I want it to be.

Not only standing tall but fully armed and fully clothed in its armor, ready to go out and do battle with the enemy and to conquer and to overcome. And so my vision of the sleeping giant was kind of changed a little bit and it became the vision of the mighty warrior. And the Lord said to me, I'm calling you to equip my mighty warrior for the battle that lies ahead.

Well I wasn't sure how I was gonna do this. God had brought us from our homeland of South Africa all the way across here to Mexico. We came here thinking that we were coming for business but then the business opportunity died and God left us stranded, we thought, and I found out that actually the Lord really brought us here for a far higher purpose that I wasn't expecting.

That he was actually calling me to set up a training system. He was going to give me away a patent and the job that would affect the entire body of Christ. I was to raise the sleeping giant and I was to equip the mighty warrior.

How was I going to do this? I was stuck in Mexico. I couldn't even speak the language. I couldn't go out and hold great big meetings.

I couldn't go and preach to the crowds. I couldn't move in signs and wonders. I couldn't do anything.

All I had was a primitive connection to the internet 16 years ago. Primitive connection to the internet. What was I going to do? The first thing the Lord said to me is I am requiring of you that you remain hidden in Mexico.

That you will not rise up and become visible. You will not become well-known. You will not become one of the big names out there but I will send you people from around the world and as they come you will train them and impart to them and put into them and then you'll send them back into their nations again and they will rise up and they will do mighty exploits and you will be known only through them but you will remain hidden away in obscurity in Mexico.

It's kind of like Moses when he was stuck on the back side of the desert. 16 years God kept us here. God began to bring us people from the nations.

Some of the leaders that he had called. We had people coming from the United States, from Switzerland, from England and New Zealand, from South Africa, Russia and Singapore and the Caribbean. God brought us people from many different nations and some of them came into a close relationship with us and even came and stayed with us for a season as we imparted to them all that God had begun to teach me and as we sat here in this hidden away place out of the public eye, God began to teach me by his spirit what he wanted his church to look like and one of the most important things that God started with was the leadership of the church and so the first thing that I began to teach and instruct on was the fivefold ministry.

The ministry of the evangelist, the pastor, the teacher and then especially the prophet and finally the apostle. All of these people came and they were trained in these things and then they left and went. Some of these people were my own family members, some of them I brought with me and they were staying with me but a season and time came for them to leave also, to take what I'd given them and to go out and to build their own ministry and we remained here in Mexico and the Lord said, you're not finished yet and I said, Lord, when are you going to release us? Lord, when can we go out and reach the world? I thought God was going to open the way for us to go into the United States and to set up a ministry center there and to get things moving and from there the United States which has always been the hub of the world, we would reach out to the nations but sadly that was not to be.

The Lord closed that door and the Lord spent, took me through a season of training on something totally different that I'd never done before. He said I want to teach you concerning those who have a business calling and I want you to teach concerning business as a ministry and so I spent a good period of up to three years learning and putting together teaching and training now not only on the fivefold ministry but now I discovered that there was also a fivefold business. I discovered that there weren't only prophets who operated in ministry but they were prophetic entrepreneurs.

I discovered that there were not only four apostolic types as I'd learned originally but I needed to add another three because now God was taking it beyond ministry to include both ministry and business and I discovered there were actually seven apostolic types and then God added an extra dimension which he called the third road, the social road. So I had the ministry road, the business road and the social road which embraced the arts, things like music and writing and all this time I was putting together this training mechanism and we began to reach out once again to the nations of this world and we set up training schools to train the leaders that God would raise up and my logic was if we could train the leaders as God had showed me originally the leaders would come to be trained we would send them back out to go and build the church according to the pattern that God had given. It was just one problem.

I hadn't shown them what the new church will look like and those who went inevitably went back and began to build churches based on the patterns that they had learned all their lives. The standard status quo church but God has been showing me that there is a new church an end times church which is going to be far greater even than the early church and is going to be different. It's going to be different to the way the status quo church operates.

I realized that I'd spent all my time not equipping the mighty warrior, not raising the sleeping giant but working only with the head and we now had a perfectly formed head and so as I came into his presence today and God has been giving us direction in the last while and I'll share it with you shortly but as I came to the presence of the Lord today in prayer I saw almost a repeat of my original vision. I saw this warrior standing before me and I'd forgotten so many years ago when I first saw that vision and I made the same mistake again. I immediately came to the conclusion this must be a demonic prince that I'm up against and I've stood ready to get into spiritual warfare and once again the Lord said remember the first vision I gave you, remember the mighty warrior and as I looked I saw that the mighty warrior was actually only functioning in his head.

The rest of the body seemed to be just helpless standing there and as I looked I saw the warrior lying down and he was moving his head and his shoulders a little bit and that's as far as he could get. The Lord said you have spent all this time training the leaders, you have created a perfect head and you have built the armor and equipped the head, you have taught my leaders, you have set in place a training mechanism for the leadership of the body of Christ and the five-fold ministry that is second to none. He said but the rest of my body is still helpless.

Well God's been preparing me this for a while and in the last year or so God has been leading us more and more into ministry not only to the leaders but ministry to other believers and I saw this sleeping giant, the mighty warrior lying there helpless and I saw his right arm beginning to come to life and it began to lift up. Well what's the right hand? What is the right arm? The right hand is always the place of power and authority isn't it? The right hand of God does valiantly. Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father and as the right hand came up I saw his sword appear in that hand and I knew that this is the first stage that needed to take place.

Well what was the right hand? What is the sword? The sword in scripture is always the word of God. What the Lord was showing me here is we always saw the head, the leaders as having the authority to preach the word and to go minister forth. The Lord said I'm putting the sword in the hands of my body not only in the leaders.

I want every believer to know the word and to be a preacher of the word and to be a dispenser of the word. He said I want you to teach every believer how to use the word. Scripture also says when Paul speaks about the spiritual armor he says and take the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.

Now the interesting thing in the Greek there is that word, word is not logos the printed written word of God but rhema the spoken active word of God the offensive weapon is not just the dead word but the word spoken and come to life and to bring the word to life it needs to be put in the mouth of God's people and spoken forth under the anointing of God and God has been showing me that there's a new prophetic movement coming that will be far greater than the original move. It's a new prophetic movement that is like the original charismatic movement it will transcend all barriers of denomination it will reach into every church group and today there is a hunger amongst people to learn the prophetic. Well I set up a perfect training for those whom God would raise up and train for the prophetic office who would stand in the authority of the fivefold ministry but what about ordinary believers? God wants every believer to be a prophet.

Do you know it was that way in the early church? I read in my Bible just not long ago something that I'd never noticed before the scripture says that Paul went to a certain place and as he got there all the Christians the believers in that place began to say to him Paul the Spirit of God reveals you shouldn't go you're gonna get into trouble. These were not prophets they were ordinary believers and they got a prophetic word for Paul that said don't go you're gonna get into trouble. Well Paul didn't seem to want to listen to that so God sent a real prophet a man by the name of Agabus and he came and he tied Paul's hands and he said this is what's going to happen to the owner of this when he goes up to Jerusalem it's gonna get bound.

Now those ordinary believers in fact Paul writes later he says in every church that I go people keep telling me that I shouldn't go up because there's gonna be trouble. Who were telling him? All the prophets. No ordinary Christians with a prophetic ministry God wants his right hand of his church to not just be the head.

The head does not wield the sword the right hand wields the sword. Yes the head is there to give direction and covering and protection and leadership and it was necessary we trained the leaders first but it's time we raise up every believer to be able to preach the word every believer to be able to prophesy and speak prophetic words and get revelation by the gifts of revelation. Lord said to me I want you to teach every believer to become mighty vessel for me.

I had that vision many years ago I called it the Spartacus vision based on the story of the original man called Spartacus who was a slave who was trained to become a gladiator and when he broke free of his prison he led a band of men who would go and break all the other slaves free and convert them all into gladiators. Ordinary slaves became gladiators. Every one of them was an expert at war.

God wants to do that for the body of Christ. Let's stop majoring on the head all the time. Let's stop majoring on the fivefold ministry and calling all the time.

They're very necessary but their main purpose is to equip the Saints to do the work of the ministry but we're not we're building our little head and each fivefold ministries coming in and wanting to train other fivefold ministry to train other fivefold ministry to train other fivefold ministry until we got a body that's made of one big head. It's time we move beyond that and start equipping the body of Christ and every single believer and whoever you are and whatever your spiritual condition right now I want to tell you God wants to use you. God's gonna use you to preach his word.

God's gonna use you to speak prophetic words out with authority. God's gonna use you to go and overcome the enemy and take this world for him. As the right arm broke free I saw the left arm come next and as the left arm rose up I saw a whole lamp in its hand.

You know there's old-fashioned torches that you see. The burning lamp. Oh what's that a picture of? Well the sword's a picture of the word.

The lamp is always a picture of the Spirit is it not? It speaks of the anointing power of God and the Lord is saying once again I don't want to only anoint the fivefold. I don't only want to anoint the leadership of the church but I want to anoint every single believer. I want my power to be upon every believer.

I want every single believer to go out in my name and to miracles and signs and wonders. You say well it's only the Apostle that does that. No actually it's any believer that can do that.

It's any believer that can do that. Philip went out and did it and he was just a deacon. I called him an evangelist later because he graduated up after doing that.

He was nothing special. Same with Stephen. These were men of God who were filled with God and went out and in the early church the people went everywhere and preached the word.

It's time that we begin to equip every single believer and teach them how to flow in the gifts of the Spirit and the power of God to go out and do signs and wonders in his name. Every single believer should be able to bring the power of God to bear on this world. Now you may have been standing there thinking well I wish I was called to one of the higher ministry offices because then I could really minister in the word and I could move in the power of God.

No you don't have to be. Start where you are and get into the word of God and learn to minister in the word. Get into the power of God and learn to flow in the gifts of the Spirit.

We're gonna teach you how to do all of this. This is part of the new mandate. The Lord showed me that the old mandate is complete.

Their head is finished. Our emphasis will no longer be only on the head. We've set up our training schools to train God's leaders and we will continue to raise them up.

But where are the leaders going to come from? They're gonna come from the body. Just as Philip started out as a deacon became an evangelist. Paul started out as a teacher and became an apostle.

We must move up. Let's take the body of Christ and I saw as the two hands came up. I saw that mighty warrior beginning to stand up and flex his power and I saw him step out standing tall, bold and ready to go out and conquer.

This is the body of Christ. This is part of what you belong to and you have a right to rise up in his power and in his anointing in this time in which we live and to do mighty exploits for the Lord. The warrior must be made ready for battle.

God said to me, I want you now that you've equipped the head and prepared it. I want you to prepare my right hand and my left hand and I want you to equip my mighty warrior from head to toe so that my church may rise up and go and do these end times what I've called it to do. I said Lord how I'm to do this? We're in Mexico.

We're stuck here and the only thing we have is the internet. I've been trying to teach people what a new pattern church looks like but I cannot show them unless I'm in a position to go and create that. The Lord gave me a direction that was the last thing I expected.

I expected he was going to open the borders to us to go into America. Instead that that door actually shut closed on us and God said no you're not going that way. We've ministered to many other people in America.

Many of them have taken our principles and are running their own ministries there. The Lord said you are a child of Africa. You were born in Africa and I'm taking you back to Africa and from there I will create a new hub from which you will work.

From there you will reach out to the surrounding nations and from there you will reach out to the nations of the world. Well that was a shocker. I thought I'd left that all behind me.

I thought that was my old life. That it was gone. As I began to look at it more and more I saw that Africa right now is ripe.

Absolutely ripe for the gospel and for the power of God in a way that it never has been before and even my own country has gone through all its upheavals and all of its political changes. It's ready now for somebody to rise up in that country and to put things in order in the body of Christ. God has raised up many mighty men in South Africa and there are many that have functioned there but many of them have left because of all the difficulties they left and went to other nations.

Many of them are now in America because America has always been the land of opportunity and the Lord blessed them and may he use them in America. But God said to me I'm sending you back to South Africa and there you will build a new pattern church and you will show the model and you will display it to the world and I will send you once again people from the nations who will come to see the model that you've set up and you will train them and show them the model and send them back to set that model in place all over the world. I said Lord how are we going to do that? I've been teaching that we would set up a ministry centre in a region and from that ministry centre there would be a training mechanism there would be a business set up and we would bring people for training there and the higher level of leadership of the five-fold ministry under the Apostles would dwell in that centre even as it was in the Acts of the Apostles where we had Jerusalem and we had Antioch as the main centres and we had all these other churches.

Paul and Barnabas started out from Antioch travelled out and founded many churches and all of these churches later looked to Paul who's their Apostle as their leader and they looked to Antioch which was the main ministry centre and in my mind I thought that we would start by building a ministry centre and raising up the leaders and then sending them out and now the Lord says no how can you build a ministry centre when you haven't yet built the churches? He said start in one place. You see Antioch wasn't the big centre until they began to send people out and the same thing happened in Jerusalem they began to send people out. God has showed me that he will take us back to South Africa.

Now that's a major step for us we have built a life here for the last 16 years in Mexico we have accumulated possessions we have accumulated equipment that has allowed us to do what we're doing right now to minister to you live on the internet to even show you videos of our live worship though there's only four of us right now we're accomplishing what normally take a large team of people and we've been able to do that online with the internet but if we gain to accomplish the big vision of raising this giant this warrior and equipping it we need to be in a place where we have access to real-life people where we have access to the nations and I know that from my homeland I will have no problem getting visa entry into any country including the United States and we are going to reach the world and many of you are going to come to us there to receive training maybe to come and stay for a short time and have everything imparted to you because we will have a set up we will have a place where we can train God's people and we will set up the pattern for the church it's a big step for us when we came here to Mexico we sold everything that we had and arrived here only with the suitcases it contained our personal belongings and our clothes and now we face the same situation going back and leaving behind everything that we built here and if we take with us even any of the equipment some of it will not work because South Africa has a different voltage to this part of the country so we're going to have to buy new equipment we're going to have to buy new furniture in a house we're going to have to buy a new car we are going to need a financial miracle for this to take place God says I'm the God of miracles I can do the impossible he said all I want you to be is willing to go out to the harvest and if you are willing I will take you to the harvest I said Lord to me it feels like I'm going backwards but as you say so be it I desire Lord to go and reach your harvest you take me to the harvest and he's promised me that he's going to perform miracles and it's going to take huge miracles for this to be accomplished so I'm asking you to look to the Lord and see how you can partner with us in this new vision to go out and to build a place where we can equip and raise up the sleeping giant that we become the mighty warrior and to equip the full body of Christ to move in the power of God I'd like you to ask God how you can stand with us in prayer and the more people that we can have interceding with us standing in prayer you say well I don't have much that I can do to help you right now but you know what if you could spend a bit of time in prayer for us that God would open the way that God would perform the miracles and if God lays on your heart to sow a financial seed that obey the Lord and plant a seed and whatever monies we receive in for this purpose will be earmarked and set aside in a special fund that will pay for us to return we need a huge amount of money just to fly back to South Africa let alone all the other things that we need to set up and I'm not one to appeal for money you know that I don't even teach on tithing but we are asking you to pray with us that God will perform the financial miracle and if God moves on your heart you'll be a part of that blessing if you'd like to commit yourself to a small amount if you'd like to commit yourself to a monthly amount whatever it is you can be a blessing and part of this work that is going to start in Africa and reach out to the nations as you always felt you'd like to go as a missionary to Africa well then you can be part of that by sending us back there again and who knows one day God may open the way for you to come and visit us there and to receive live ministry training and to go out into the field of the harvest that God has called you to do and then in addition to that I would like to get to know you to make contacts with you because the time will come when God will open the way for us once again to visit America to visit in Europe and to visit the other nations of the world and we will be able to reach out so much better if we have people that are already in these countries the Lord showed me many years ago that he was giving me leaders who would be in all the nations of this world we're not building a denomination Lord forbid I'm not looking to set up branches of GBM in every nation you can go and set up your own ministry and call it whatever you like but we'll give you the tools that you need to fulfill the call of God on your life this is my mandate and even in these end years in which I'm living right now and I'm not that old yet but I'm not that young either it's taken me my whole life to build up to this peak and I've presented to you the fullness of the teaching of the training of the leaders and there will be more to come and I would like to present you now teaching at another level and we will be offering you from now on on a weekly basis a lower level more practical more direct ministry which we're calling our ministry corner and in our ministry corner we as the ministry team here are going to take turns to minister to you we want to share with you and minister to you and even pray with you live so you've yet if you have a special need that you would like us to minister to we invite you to write to us and share it with us and as the Lord leads we will sit in front of camera and we will pray for you directly by the Spirit and we'll minister to you directly and if there's any teaching that you want us to give especially for you we will try and make that available as well if it's something that we haven't already taught before but we're going to become available to you in a more practical way and though we are not in a position right now to set up a live ministry and to invite people to come and attend our meetings we can continue to do this now in front of camera using the internet and we will continue to do this and expand it until Lord opens the way for us to take that flight back to South Africa and from there we will build a ministry that will glorify the Lord and help each one of you I believe to find the place that the Lord has for you we're going to build the end times church we're going to build it according to the correct pattern that the Lord has showed and the church is going to rise up as that mighty warrior in every nation of the world in every city in every main city of the world God is going to rise up in power and the church is going to be made ready for the soon return of our Lord Jesus I'd like you to pray about being part of this vision I've shared my heart with you I've shared what God has given me and we continue to be there for you as we always have may the Lord bless you abundantly

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